How the LLM made programming exciting again

I'm a programming enthusiast. I don't make a living from programming. I'm a healthcare professional and in my spare time I make apps and tinker with microcontrollers. By spare time, I mean just an hour a day on average. I split it up between my hobbies: gaming, programming, sports. That's not much time for programming. Recently, when I started to code it took the better part of my time to come up with what to do and how to do it. (Did I mention updating IDEs and such already?) I couldn't keep up with the lastest API changes, SDK enhancements and changes in best practices. One day I thought, why not let Claude code look over my code and have it suggest improvements. And it delivered. Some crap but mostly great suggestions. And so I started to work on the next update of one of my apps with Claude as my Rubber Duck. Whenever I didn't know how to implement a feature or what the best way to do so was, I asked Claude. It looked over my current code and came up with suggestions. I didn't l